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May112017

Stages of Alcohol Use, Abuse, And Addiction

Alcoholism Stage 1: Abstaining

Alcohol addiction can actually begin before the alcohol consumption commences if an individual has attitudes and perceptions consistent with those that addicts generally display.

Alcoholism Stage 2: Original Use

Stage two can include things like the experimental use of alcohol, periodic use, or periodic binge drinking (i.e., once or twice a year). Original use of alcohol may not be a problem for the user or those persons who are close to the user. Periodic drinking may well create difficulties while the user is intoxicated or the next day, she or he has not got to the stage of addiction.

Alcoholism Stage 3: Significant Risk Use

Significant risk refers to an abundance of alcohol consumption, and poor choices made when intoxicated. At this stage, the pattern and frequency of alcohol abuse is high enough to be hazardous for the drinker and people around him or her.

During the middle stage of alcoholism, harmful consequences begin to escalate. The user loses his or her job due to too many skipped days at work. Alcohol-induced fights end relationships. The effects of the adverse consequences of alcoholism become irreversible.

Alcoholism Stage 7: Crisis Stage of Dependency

Serious health concerns become issues. This stage frequently results in alcohol-related deaths for the users if they do not enter alcohol rehab.